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Velveteen Rabbi's Torah Commentary

This page contains a link to every d'var Torah I've written since 2003 (at least, every one to which I can currently dig up a working link), sorted by parsha.

As an FYI: many of the Torah poems which I originally posted here (and to which you can find links below) have been revised and edited into a book-length collection of poems: 70 faces, published by Phoenicia Publishing (Montreal) in 2011. If you click through to the publisher's website, you can read a preview of the book & hear me reading some of the poems aloud; I hope you'll consider picking up a copy if these Torah poems are your kind of thing!

For commentary arising out of the later books of the Tanakh, scroll down to the bottom of the page; for commentary on the Torah (the Five Books of Moses), read on.

2010: Seven Miriam Stories [Torah poems] - linked here because the episode where Miriam questions Moshe's primacy and is stricken with tzara'at, which appears in this week's Torah portion, gave rise to part of this poem